A92141:731
Influences of the life of grace
Influences of the life of grace. Or, A practical treatise concerning the way, manner, and means of having and improving of spiritual dispositions, and quickening influences from Christ the resurrection and the life. By Samuel Rutherfurd, Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.Influences of the life of grace. Or, A practical treatise concerning the way, manner, and means of having and improving of spiritual dispositions, and quickning influences from Christ the resurrection and the life. By Samuel Rutherfurd, Professor of Divinity in the Vniversity of St. Andrews in Scotland.
London: printed by T.C. for Andrew Crook, 1659
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3. Faith should rely upon the promise of God for influences of grace, and look away from nature, and cease from the breathings of free-will, especially since they are involved ⟨p. 224⟩in the promises of perseverance, and in the promises of the covenant, Isa. 54. 10. Isa. 59. 21. Jer. 31. 35. Ezek. 36. 27. For among men he who engageth for a good harvest, doth also engage to labour, to harrow and sow. He that covenants to bring home to a Prince a ships loading of gold from India, he must also engage to prepare a ship, and sea-men, and provision for them, and to set out to the Sea for sailing, and to take the opportunity of the winds. Now since the Lord hath promised to bring many children to glory, this puts on Christ a sort of engagement, especially if we add to this the trust that the Father hath put on him, John 17. 2. chap. 6. 37. to work in them to will and to do, and when they fall, to raise them again: and as faith relies upon the promise of glory, so is faith to rely upon Christ for grace and influences, and new breathings of the Spirit, without which, perseverance promised, even undeclinable attaining to glory, is impossible.
3. Faith should rely upon the promise of God for influences of grace, and look away from nature, and cease from the breathings of free-will, especially since they are involved ⟨p. 224⟩in the promises of perseverance, and in the promises of the covenant, Isa. 54. 10. Isa. 59. 21. Jer. 31. 35.